The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Drawing of man crouching near barbed wire entanglements. Waiting until the guard had passed on, an emaciated prisoner-of-war is ready to slip over, or under, a known spot in the wire entanglements.
The explosion of an experimental 'Bangalore Torpedo' near Corbie. The torpedo consisted of a long pipe filled with explosives, which was placed under the enemy barbed wire entanglements, and detonated
Gallipoli, Turkey. Two soldiers sit beside a pile of empty tins cutting up barbed wire for jam tin bombs. The bombs were made near the beach at Anzac Cove, a spot popularly known as the 'bomb factory'
Two emaciated figures, one with stick, the other with swag, trudging along a road. Verso: Inverted pencil sketch for the two emaciated men. Daily roll calls were used by the Japanese to select the pr
left image: A guard is jumping in the air in front of a tangled fence of barbed wire. An Australian prisoner of war is running away from him. right image: Three Australian prisoners of war stand nex
In a pensive mood on a quite battle front is Private Les Heppner of Prahran, Vic. The Truce had been signed the night before this shot was taken. He would not have been gazing on this spot the day bef
Troops by their thousands passed through Albury. The change of railway gauges at the border meant changing trains, and the long Albury platform became familiar territory to troops who frequently had t
